One from column A and one from column B

"The Senate Democrats don't know whether to attack the administration now for its nonchalance or to wait and second-guess them once the bombs begin to fall."

VDH is at the top of the analysis game, but I don't quite see the sense of this sentence. It's quite obviously both. The Democrats' conundrum is a more immediate one: How to criticize Bush at once, now, for being too active and too passive.